Re: [Avf-fuse-dev] Extending FUSE

[Franco B. <fr...@cl...>]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 23:55, Steven James wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> You'll still need a pseudofile, like real_location:
> 
> getfattr -n 'franco/harry' /realpath
> # file: realpath
> franko/harry="/data1/franco/harry"
> 
> or something like that (I didn't check if '/' needs escaping or not).

Good thinking.

> 
> 
> G'day,
> sjames
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Franco Broi wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 20:18, Franco Broi wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:24, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > > > OK, but what happens when several processes open the special file
> > > > > > simultaneously?
> > > > >
> > > > > The read/write could be "paired" using the pid (so pid may be needed
> > > > > after all :).  Of course there are problems if no read follows a
> > > > > write, because that would lead to resource leaks in the filesystem.
> > > > > It would be interesting to know how Plan9 does this exactly.
> > > >
> > > > I just remember, there _is_ a syscall which is a combined read/write,
> > > > and which I think meets your needs: getxattr().  It's already
> > > > supported in FUSE, and is much cleaner than ioctl().
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> >
> > Ah, one slight problem. It only works for existing files. It seems that
> > getattr is called first and returns no such file or directory.
> >
> > (Sorry for the out of order emails - power outage at work)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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